X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Message-ID: <3C3C84AF.90518DCD@yahoo.com> From: CBFalconer Organization: Ched Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: command line argument References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 59 Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 18:47:30 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.90.181.44 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT worldnet DOT att DOT net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1010602050 12.90.181.44 (Wed, 09 Jan 2002 18:47:30 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 18:47:30 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Drac0 wrote: > > /* could anyone tell me why this doesn't work? */ > > #include > > main(int argc, int * argv[]) > { > > if(* argv[1] >= 100) > printf("argv is bigger or equal to 100!\n"); > else > printf("argv is less than 100!\n"); > return 0; > } > > /* I cant see why this shouldn't work! */ Compare with this, written about another query elsegroup: c:\dnld\scratch>type junk.c #include #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { double d; float f; int i; if (argc < 2) printf("Usage: %s %s\n", argv[0], " number number ..."); else { for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) { if (1 != sscanf(argv[i], "%lf", &d)) return EXIT_FAILURE; f = d; printf("%d: %25.20f, %15.10f %s\n", i, d, (double)f, argv[i]); } } return 0; } c:\dnld\scratch>gcc junk.c c:\dnld\scratch>a 6.45 124.1 1: 6.45000000000000017764, 6.4499998093 6.45 2: 124.09999999999999431566, 124.0999984741 124.1 and note that main returns an int. -- Chuck F (cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com) (cbfalconer AT XXXXworldnet DOT att DOT net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. (Remove "XXXX" from reply address. yahoo works unmodified) mailto:uce AT ftc DOT gov (for spambots to harvest)